NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t done so[…]
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Author: Adam Nichols
I'm an associate professor with the University of Maryland, in the U.S. I spent twenty years teaching for the University of Maryland’s European division, in England, Scotland, Norway, Iceland, and Germany, and downrange on military installations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I've also lived and worked in Australia, China, and Canada. I presently live in the U.S.
NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS – PART 3
(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 2. If you haven’t done so[…]
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NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS – PART 4
(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 3. If you haven’t done so[…]
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CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARIUM
Something a little different this week… Living in the twenty-first century as we do, with access to Google Earth, Google[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON THE HISTORY OF ALGIERS – PART 1
The city of Algiers wasn’t always a powerful corsair capital. In fact, it wasn’t a particularly important city at all[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON THE HISTORY OF ALGIERS – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan on the History of Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON BRINGING CAPTIVES HOME
If you were captured by Barbary corsairs, and you came from a Catholic country—and you weren’t rich—your best chance for[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON RENEGADES
This week continues the series of excerpts from Father Pierre Dan, the Trinitarian friar. This week’s post is on renegades—Christians[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON THE SELLING OF CAPTIVES IN ALGIERS
This week’s post is another in the series from Father Pierre Dan, the French Trinitarian friar who took part in[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF ESCAPE – PART 1
For those Europeans unfortunate enough to be captured by Barbary corsairs and taken to North Africa to be auctioned off[…]
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